Thursday, September 4

Make it good enough to watch again, STAT!

Do you remember, back in the day, when ER was a really, really good show? It's magnificence can be attributed to several things that the show offered at the time (not the least of which were the fantastic George Clooney and Julianna Margulies), but among them was Anthony Edwards and his character, Dr. Mark Greene. The show was so great for so many years. And this year, its last, is ripe with the stunt casting. Included in such casting is Angela Bassett and Courtney Vance, as well as the return of Noah Wyle's Dr. John Carter (ER, hear me. Please, please make Carter's return less dramatic. His issues were so plentiful and angsty that I got emotionally drained just trying to keep up).Anyway, Greene is showing up as a part of a flashback (remembering, of course, that he died several years ago of a brain tumor). So it'll be a couple of scenes in a "very special" episode, and Edwards will have fulfilled a portion of his pact with the karma gods by making older fans of the show happy. I won't lie, I imagine I'll probably watch that episode just because of it.And what of ER's most famous alumnus? How frickin' tickled would all us girls be if George Clooney actually did make his way onto one of the show's final episodes? His Doug Ross and Margulies's Carol Hathaway appearing as a special goodbye at, oh, say Carter's funeral? (I hear that they refused to show at Greene's funeral because they didn't want to steal any of Edwards' departure thunder. Cool of them, but still, I'd have liked to have seen their faces in that scene.) Anyway, I'm hoping to hear about Clooney and Margulies soon, aren't you now?

My To-Be-Read Pile

"Grave Ransom," Kalayna Price

"The Map of Time," Felix J. Palma

Obsessed Much? Yes. TV shows I watch:

Archer,Drunk History, Elementary, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, Game of Thrones, The Good Place, Gotham, iZombie, Last Week Tonight, Life in Pieces, Marvel's Agents of SHIELD, Modern Family, The Originals, Preacher, Talking Dead, The Walking Dead

Movies I've seen

The Accountant

Sing

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Mr. Right

Passengers

Books I've Read

"The End of Oz," Danielle Paige

"Yellow Brick War," Danielle Paige

"Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis," Anne Rice

"The Court of Mist and Fury," Sarah Maas

"The Angels' Share," J.R. Ward

Sydney G.

Cooper G.

Elliot G.

Random pet peeves

Head ribbons on babies

Mouth noises

Use of "@" outside of email addresses

Monkey movies

Shaped shrubbery

Dog owners that leave poo

Men who soapbox pro-life

Shingles

Crickets and ants

New York Yankees, Giants

Mosquito bites

"Fifty Shades of Grey"

Put on your quotation devices

"You can never have too many super-duper, super-swell friends."

"Well-behaved women rarely make history."

"As you wish."

"Bird by bird."

"I spin on an axis of my own neuroses."

"When in trouble, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout."

"Not the sort of information I retain."

"Keep a watchful eye for ravens."

" ... trying to smell the color 9."

Arbitrary goals and aspirations

Weigh what I've got listed on my driver's license.

Watch the "best" movies and read all the "best" books.

Gain the confidence to wear heels regularly and in everyday life.

Use the statement, made popular by most every movie villain, "You have no idea what I'm capable of."